file footage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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People watch a TV broadcasting file footage of a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be a pair of ballistic missiles off its east coast, in Seoul, South Korea, September 15, 2021.
From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2021
You can see in the file footage that you used at the beginning of the segment that I still have lesions on my face from that illness.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2018
The company says it was created overnight from file footage and narrated by an agency art director who had never done voiceover work.
From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2015
All of this was done to a booming soundtrack and lots of file footage of protests and things exploding.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2011
So we see file footage on everyone from Sharpe James, a former mayor of Newark, to James Treffinger, a former Essex County executive, to James E. McGreevey, the governor who resigned.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2010
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